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The strength of spiritual pressure is inextricably linked to talent. Byakuya Kuchiki already possessed top-tier talent, and even if his spiritual pressure increased in his Shikai state, it was merely an unlocking and realization of his inherent talent.
However, Aizen Senzaemon is different. He only has this talent, which can be considered genius, but it is not outstanding among top-level powerhouses. Therefore, no matter how much he increases the spiritual pressure of his Shikai, there is a limit.
It's impossible to say that the percentage of the initial solution reaches the level of the d-solution.
If he reaches the limit of his personal initial release amplification and chooses to withdraw from battle to learn D-release, and then returns to grinding monsters, then the degree to which his D-release unlocks his spiritual pressure will gradually increase, thereby increasing his strength.
But he didn't, which forced the limits of his Shikai to be pushed to the limit, which meant that his personal spiritual pressure limit was also pushed to the limit, that is, his talent was transformed! Aizen was not afraid of him because of this, but instead immediately thought of that... stunningly talented woman.
"Maybe we should invite her next time."
For that woman, her deficiency in spiritual pressure was the biggest weakness limiting her power.
If her talent were higher, she might not be worse than Yamamoto. Unfortunately, after realizing her basic talent, she could only increase her spiritual pressure through hard work. However, the difference in talent meant that she couldn't even keep up with the old man's speed in hard work.
Aizen has already regarded the Arad continent as a treasure trove.
Several hours passed.
As everyone gradually recovered, even the severely injured Chiba Ryuun regained some of his fighting strength under the healing care of Ōmaeda Machiyo.
Just when everyone thought the matter was over and they could leave once the Soul Society detected that the spacetime rift above the East Sea had calmed down, another unexpected event occurred.
Boom! A terrifying aura suddenly descended and suppressed everything.
The powerful captains present were all jolted awake, and some nearly fainted.
A massive magic circle appeared in mid-air.
"What's this!"
"Oh no! Contact Soul Society immediately!"
"Squad 12, restriction lifted!"
"Quickly, apply for the lifting of the restrictions!!!"
Just as everyone was getting tense and panicked, several powerful individuals were the first to react.
Unfortunately, everyone's consciousness went black in just one second.
Aizen hesitated for a second, wondering whether to restore his power to resist. Although he was somewhat surprised by this unexpected turn of events, he still trusted his own guess and restrained his impulse.
As a result, his consciousness also went blank.
The same scene repeated itself in 817: In China and Italy, three groups of people resisting the invasion of another world were successively covered by magic circles.
A few seconds later, the people in the three locations suddenly appeared on Earth.
Oh no, there are also some "ordinary people".
It seems they were spared by a mysterious entity.
A shattered starry sky, like a scene from a time-space turbulence.
Pieces of broken, floating ground were pieced together in a jumbled mess, and then, accompanied by three beams of light, a series of unconscious people appeared here.
Let me take this opportunity to explain "talent" in more detail.
The concept that talent strength equals innate spiritual pressure strength only applies to Shinigami and Hollows. If a talented ninja abandons their physical body to become a Shinigami, their talent might decrease or even drop to a lower level.
In the case of Dong Zhang and Andy, the system converted their physical talents into soul talents.
In addition, the quality of one's talent affects the strength of one's innate spiritual pressure. Generally speaking, mastering D-type release means constantly exchanging and unlocking one's inherent spiritual pressure.
When all the original spiritual pressure is released, the spiritual pressure can still increase. This is when the true meaning of cultivation improvement is realized. Before that, it can only be considered as realizing one's talent.
Since Shinigami (death gods) lack the training methods to increase spiritual pressure, at this point, they have to rely on gradual, persistent effort.
While progress is slow, growth is still related to talent. However, Shinigami (death gods) also have a limited lifespan, so Retsu Unohana's swordsmanship level is not considered. In terms of spiritual pressure, even if she spends her entire life, it is still difficult to reach the threshold of level 1.
Chapter 349 The Truth of the Grand Forest 2/3
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Aizen, whose mind was in complete darkness, vaguely felt a slight pain in his face; it must be a hallucination from a dream.
One second, two seconds... wait, the pain is getting clearer! Suddenly opening his blood-red Sharingan, Aizen stared at the face before him, which looked like a mirror image, and after a moment of stunned silence, he realized the truth.
This wasn't a misperception; he had indeed been humiliated, and by none other than his own ally, Kiyohime. This unpleasant experience left him feeling quite frustrated.
Anyone who sees someone with the same face as themselves slap them would feel an indescribable discomfort.
Fortunately, Aizen remained calm and quickly regained his composure.
Compared to such trivial matters, focusing on the current situation is the most important thing.
"Pretend to be unconscious, then act like you've just woken up."
After giving the order, Aizen began to survey his surroundings. It was an isolated space nestled in the starry sky, a mysterious and mesmerizing yet dangerous scene.
On the uneven "ground"
Outside was a beautiful starry sky with nothing in it, but Aizen felt a sense of threat. If he went out unprepared, he might be completely shattered by the power of space.
This feeling intrigued him, and it also sparked his keen interest in the person behind the incident.
The Second Apostle, Hilder, the Weeping Eye! Everyone sensed something was amiss in Utol's dying words, and later, when clearing out the goblins, Kuchiki, Ginryu, and others tried to interrogate him for answers.
However, the goblins seemed to have gone mad, their words fragmented and incoherent, making it difficult to connect the dots logically. But Aizen, who was quite familiar with the Arad continent, still managed to grasp the key points.
First, these goblins all live in the Grand Forest, but the environment of the Grand Forest is no longer suitable for their survival.
Secondly, their invasion of this world was led by Lightning Keno and Sword Saint Utol, and they themselves had no idea why they came to this world.
Third, ordinary goblins cannot resist returning to their own world; those who have tried have all died.
The question lies in what happened in the Grand Forest. Was the invasion truly the will of Keno and Utol, and merely something ordinary goblins couldn't resist? Or was it something even Keno and Utol couldn't resist? And what was the cause of their deaths, based on Aizen's memories of the Grand Forest?
The Grand Forest has several well-known characters, including Lightning Keno, Minotaur King Sauta, Frost Krah, Flame Pinoch, and Corpse Hell Breath.
In comparison, the Minotaur and the Poison Cat King, who are nameless historical figures, are not particularly important in the story.
These five 55s basically connect the important plot points of the entire Grand Forest dungeon.
The continent of Arad was once created by Master Mar at the cost of his own life, who created a continent on the seabed for the elves as a habitat, and then raised the sea to form the boundary of the continent of Arad.
Therefore, the Grand Forest was originally called the Elf Forest. Then, a sudden fire destroyed the Grand Forest. At the cost of Grand's own life, the Grand Magic Circle was replenished with magic. Apart from Sosia, the tavern owner who was not in the forest, only Celia, who lost her powers and became human, survived.
Of these five 55s, Thunderclap Keno and Minotaur Sauta are both native inhabitants, and like the Poison Cat King of the Cat Demon clan, they are rulers of various monster races in the Grand Forest.
Compared to the silent Poison Cat King, these two carry information. Lightning King Keno is simply a goblin and can hardly be considered a good person, while Minotaur King Sauta is a rather honest and simple king who loves the Grand Forest.
The fire attracted two mage sisters. The younger sister, Krach, tried to extinguish the fire with ice magic, but gradually lost her mind. The older sister, Pinoshu, was still in a relatively normal mental state, but used fire magic to seal off the evil aura and prevent it from leaking out.
The evil aura was naturally the Bone Prison Breath of the Corpse Thief, which used the power of the grand magic array to create zombies.
Connecting these five 55s is the Corpse Thief's Bone Prison Breath. The ominous evil aura leaked out, causing the monsters to go berserk. The mage sisters saved the Grand Forest; one was responsible for putting out the fire but went mad, while the other managed to maintain her sanity by sealing off the ominous aura leaked by the Corpse Thief's Bone Prison Breath.
At first glance, this story seems to have nothing to do with Herder.
However, Aizen knew how the fire started: it was set by a woman—the bard and prophet Alice, who guided the adventurers to kill one Apostle after another! As everyone knows, Alice is a puppet created by the Second Apostle, Hilder. She possesses her own personality, believes herself to be a magician of the Demon World, and is essentially unaware that she is a "bad person."
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Under Herder's subtle influence, they began to mislead and entice the entire continent to help Herder achieve his own goals.
There always needs to be a reason for doing something.
The other apostles were killed because Hilder needed their deaths to unleash the ultimate magic and rebuild her home. But what was the purpose of the situation in Grand Forest? Aizen had two theories.
Objective 1: The suspected Apostle, Celia Krumin.
Objective 2, the magician sisters Frost Krah and Flame Pinoch.
Whether it's Keno or Sauta, they're just small fry to Hilder, not very significant.
The appearance of the Corpse Thief Bone Prison Breath was the second step after the fire ended, the second link in Hilder's conspiracy, and not her objective in itself.
The reason for killing Celia is the simplest: if Celia is an apostle, Hilder must kill her for the sake of his dream.
As for those two seemingly minor mage sisters, they actually have quite a background. Among the female mage's advanced class, Summoner, there is a high-level summoner called "Flame Pinoch."
The eldest sister is proficient in both ice and fire magic.
Hilder's home planet is Terra, which is also the Demon Realm of the Arad Continent.
The three sisters belong to a race born in the demon realm called "Otherworldly."
They are a special race, heretics rejected by the demons, and possess extremely strong magical talent.
This race once served Nuo Zhao as the "Former Ninth Apostle".
Tyrant King Bakal slaughtered demons indiscriminately, thus incurring their rejection and hatred.
Later in the story, the three young sisters first showed their talent by wreaking havoc in the demon realm, seriously threatening the lives of the demons.
Then something very strange happened; one day, they all vanished from the demon realm without a trace.
Aizen speculated that the disappearance of the two sisters might also have been caused by Hilder "transferring" them.
They were moved to the plot against Celia, and incidentally dealt with this unstable element, while Louis was probably also transferred to another location, the specifics of which are unknown.
Having deduced the truth about the Grand Forest, Aizen couldn't help but wonder what Hilder had done in the seemingly insignificant Grand Forest to cause all these events.
Seeing all those "familiar" people around me
"stranger"
He felt the answer would come soon.
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Chapter 350 Language Communication Barriers 3/3
"To accomplish something like this across the world is truly remarkable."
Aizen, having completely pinpointed the mastermind behind the scheme, smiled slightly.
In a sense, they were also transferred by Hilder. However, Aizen was also very clear that if Hilder's intentions were as he suspected, she would never have transferred them to the Arad Continent.
In other words, this seemingly magical interstellar battlefield is likely a temporary small space that Hilder created in this world; or, to put it more bluntly, Hilder may have established this "battlefield" in the vast universe.
Regardless of which one it is, Hilder's power proves that Aizen's judgment was correct.
Don't be fooled by the fact that Quincy can create an invisible empire within the Soul Society; the level of technology involved is on a completely different level. At least Aizen doesn't believe that possessing the power of the Rinnegan is insufficient to see through the true nature of the invisible empire's space.
The Rinnegan still has a significant advantage in terms of spatial manipulation, whether it's his "Limbo: Border Jail" or...
Sasuke's "Amenotejikara"
Or perhaps it's Kaguya-hime's "Amenominaka"?
All of them have a profound connection with space.
And so far, he hasn't found a single way to leave this place.
This time they received "apostle treatment".
Aizen also noticed something, Cao Yanbing and Mewtwo were also involved, and a group of guys with obvious foreign features were all unconscious here.
However, in comparison, their numbers are far fewer than theirs.
All twenty-one of them were transferred here.
On the side of the Otherworlders, Cao Yanbing and Mewtwo took up two spots, there was also Li Ze from the Quanzhen Sect whom I vaguely remembered, and five strangers with the 55 rating, for a total of eight people.
Among the foreigners, two looked familiar, very similar to the two generations of Vongola he remembered. There were also six people he didn't recognize at all, making a total of eight.
Taking advantage of this time, Aizen also began to secretly observe information about these people.
The eight people from Italy consist of one large air unit, six 66 guardians, and the next generation; their strength is all at least at the highest level, so there's not much to say about them.
Then there's the Huaxia side. Almost immediately upon checking the information, he identified the Quanxing faction! Zhou Huan's strength: + Talent: + Abilities: Divine Mask, Fist Techniques, Xingyi Quan, Tai Chi Quan, Bajiquan. The information about this old man surprised Aizen slightly.
Those kinds of fist techniques didn't surprise him much. Of all the fist techniques, only Bajiquan was at a level that he could take seriously. However, having seen level 1 Muay Thai, level 1 Kendo, and level 2 Kendo, Aizen found it quite normal.
As a nation renowned for its martial arts, it's quite normal for a powerful elder to be proficient in several martial arts styles to a very high level.
What surprised him most was the God Mask! In the original Under One Person novel, it was created by Xia Liuqing of the Quanxing sect and "Na Du Tong"...
The supernatural abilities used by temporary worker Wang Zhenqiu, coupled with the bizarre abilities of the other four people, inevitably made him think of the Quanxing Sect.
However, compared to the Quanxing sect, the "God Mask"
This ability intrigued Aizen even more, because it was somewhat similar to his Breaking Through to the Fifth Rank system.
The essence of the divine mask is acting! When necessary, act until others believe, act until they do! Act as a god with yourself! Become a god with yourself! Act with your life! Use a mortal body to borrow the power of a god! This ability gave him a strange feeling when he read the original work. He believed that the potential of this ability was not only comparable to the Eight Extraordinary Techniques, but even surpassed them! The ninth extraordinary technique among the Eight Extraordinary Techniques, "Divine Spirit"